I was sent one of these by Shawn at UUGear for review so here goes… Information Witty Pi is a real-time clock and power management HAT for the Raspberry Pi B+, A+ and Pi 2. It has the following features:…
Category: GPIO boards
PIN entry system using a Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni Explorer HAT
Sandy Macdonald has taken a Pimoroni Explorer HAT and used it to create a PIN entry system. At the moment, the entry system lights up some LEDs and makes a buzzer sound, but obviously it could be extended to unlock…
Monitor pot-holes with a Raspberry Pi
George Mallingbury has taken a GPS serial device and an XLoBorg board (from PiBorg – it’s got an accelerometer on it) and attached them to his Pi. He’s then used some Python and SQL commands to record the jolts, jiggles…
TrafficHAT from RyanTeck for the Raspberry Pi – review
The TrafficHAT from RyanTeck is a simple-to-use add-on board for later models of the Raspberry Pi. It plugs into the 40-pin GPIO header and gives you access to 3 large LEDs, a button and a buzzer. It sounds simple, and…
Make your own Raspberry Pi-powered drum kit
Carmelito Andrade has written an excellent tutorial in which he uses the Adafruit Capacitive Touch HAT together with a Raspberry Pi Model A+ and some 3D-printed bits to create a Pi-powered drum kit. Read it here.
Build your own digital clock with a Raspberry Pi with this Kickstarter
David Saul is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Compatible with the B+, A+ and Pi 2, the PiMuxClock plugs into the 40-way GPIO header and stands up, giving you a large…
Low-power E-paper display HAT for the Raspberry Pi
Percheron Electronics, which is spear-headed by Neil Matthews (who regularly attends and helps at our Cambridge Raspberry Jams), has just launched its first Kickstarter. The campaign seeks to raise funds to produce an e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi. The display…
Using the PiStop with Scratch on the Raspberry Pi
Teacher Cat Lamin has written up a quick sort-of review of the brilliant PiStop from 4tronix. This simple little GPIO plug in board gives you access to some traffic light LEDs that you then program using your favourite language on the…
Theatrical endeavour for one lucky Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ, who teaches at KESH Academy in Birmingham, had a problem: How to give a Tin Man a heart. For his school’s performances of The Wizard of Oz, he decided that a Raspberry Pi was the way to go.…
PiJuice – portable power for the Raspberry Pi
Not sure how I didn’t cover this before… Must have got caught up in Big Birthday Weekend stuff. Aaron Shaw from Pi Supply and his team have developed a new battery pack for the Pi called the PiJuice and are…